How to use standard built-in fonts for text in PDF document using Bytescout.PDF library for .NET

Using standard fonts for text in PDF documents

This example demonstrates how to use built-in "standard" fonts for text in PDF

If you need to use another font then you can load font using its name (if font is installed in system) or TTF font file

Text in PDF document using built-in standard fonts

Download example source code: bytescoutpdf_fonts.zip (5 KB)

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using Bytescout.PDF;
using System.Diagnostics;

namespace HelloWorld
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
// Create main PDF Doc Engine
PDFDocEngine engine = new PDFDocEngine("", "");

// Add new document
Document document = engine.AddDocument();

// Append new page to the document
Page page = document.AddPage(PageSizeType.A3, PageOrientationType.LandScape);

// Create new drawing
Drawing drawing = page.AddDrawing();

// font size constant
const int fontSize = 50;

// Create array with font types
StandardFontType[] fontTypes = new StandardFontType[] {
StandardFontType.Courier,
StandardFontType.CourierBold,
StandardFontType.CourierBoldOblique,
StandardFontType.Helvetica,
StandardFontType.HelveticaBold,
StandardFontType.HelveticaBoldOblique,
StandardFontType.HelveticaOblique,
StandardFontType.TimesBold,
StandardFontType.TimesBoldItalic,
StandardFontType.TimesItalic,
StandardFontType.TimesRoman
};

// X position of the text to draw
int textX = 10;
// Y position of the text to draw
int textY = 50;

// Draw all font types
foreach (StandardFontType fontType in fontTypes)
{
// Add standard font
uint font = document.AddFontStandard(fontType, FontEncodingType.WinAnsi);

// Set Active Font
drawing.SetActiveFont(font, fontSize, false, false);

// Draw Text
drawing.PlaceText(textX, textY, 0, fontType.ToString());

// Increase position of the next text
textY += fontSize + 20;
}


// Save document
document.Save("Fonts.pdf");

// open generated PDF document in default PDF viewer installed in Windows
Process.Start("Fonts.pdf");
}
}
}

Download example source code: bytescoutpdf_fonts.zip (5 KB)

Filed in: PDF SDK for .NET

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